Chapter 411 - Missouri Grain Warehouse Law

Section 411.010 - Short title
Section 411.012 - Purpose
Section 411.015 - Scope of law
Section 411.020 - Application of law - construction of laws governing warehouse receipts
Section 411.026 - Definitions
Section 411.028 - Grain delivered to warehouse for cleaning, processing and returned for seed, not grain as defined for grain warehouse law
Section 411.030 - Department of agriculture to grade and weigh grains - operate laboratories and stations - supervise warehouses - federally owned grain, duties
Section 411.050 - Bond of director
Section 411.061 - Director not to deal in grain, exception
Section 411.070 - Director - powers and duties - rules, procedure
Section 411.100 - Inspectors - qualifications
Section 411.110 - Weighmasters - powers and duties
Section 411.135 - Warehouseman to act as registrar of receipts - records to be kept
Section 411.140 - Personnel of branch offices - appointment - qualifications - duties
Section 411.145 - Department may conduct grain inspection business outside state, when
Section 411.150 - Fees, how fixed
Section 411.151 - Grain inspection fee fund established - deposits and disbursements - not to lapse - transfers from general revenue - investment of fund
Section 411.160 - Grain inspected and weighed by authorized inspectors - penalty
Section 411.170 - Certificates shall be evidence - right of revocation
Section 411.180 - Right of examination, audit and inspection - confidential information, penalty for disclosure - subpoena powers of director - director to investigate complaints, when
Section 411.200 - Reinspection
Section 411.255 - Operations for which a license is required - administrative penalty for operating without license
Section 411.260 - Application for public warehouse license, contents - rules - financial statements - false financial statement, penalty
Section 411.263 - Fee for license
Section 411.266 - Renewal of license - application, contents of - penalty for late renewal
Section 411.268 - Schedule of charges to be filed, posted by warehouseman
Section 411.271 - Examination of warehouse - paid for by whom - discrepancy, effect of
Section 411.275 - Warehouseman's bond, requirements - defenses denied surety - cancellation, notice, effect - demand for payment by director, duties of director - refusal of surety to pay, penalty - distribution of bond proceeds - duties of depositors or receipt holders - injunction, hearing, notice - final inspection of warehouse - verbal or written bond binders effective, contents
Section 411.276 - Liability of surety not cumulative
Section 411.277 - Certificates of deposit and letters of credit, provisions applicable to - letters of credit, submitted in lieu of bond, when, refusal of director to accept, grounds, demand by director, procedure, failure by bank to pay, when, penalty, funds returned to bank, when - rules and regulations
Section 411.278 - Amount of bond, how computed
Section 411.280 - Warehouseman's net worth, requirements - deficiency, how corrected
Section 411.281 - Additional bond required, when - amount, how determined
Section 411.283 - Requirements for license - minimum storage capacity - scales required - denial of license, notice, hearing - contents of license - posting of license, duplicate license issued when - notice of suspension, cancellation, revocation or refusal to issue - removal of license, effect of
Section 411.285 - Procedure after license is revoked - injunction to sell or remove grain, hearing, notice
Section 411.287 - Director may monitor operations, when - fee for monitoring - director may order shipments of grain stopped, failure to obey order, penalty
Section 411.290 - Insurance required, exceptions - rules and regulations
Section 411.295 - Director may hold hearings, administer oaths, subpoena witnesses and evidence, and punish for contempt
Section 411.301 - Director may enjoin violations
Section 411.311 - Operation without license prohibited, penalty
Section 411.321 - Terminal warehouseman to receive, inspect, weigh and grade grain
Section 411.323 - Nonterminal warehouseman to receive, inspect, weigh and grade grain - exceptions - may issue receipts for own grain, how
Section 411.325 - Delivery of grain to warehouse - procedure - contract - grain deemed for storage, when - deferred pricing and deferred payment and minimum price agreements - transactions not covered by bond - all grain deemed storage covered by bond
Section 411.327 - Grain bank grain, how treated
Section 411.331 - Grain may be withheld from going into terminal warehouse - when - how - penalties
Section 411.341 - Grain may be stored in special bin - receipt to indicate
Section 411.360 - Cleaning, preservation by warehouseman of grain specially stored - requirements - change of condition of grain, notice - delivery to other than owner or receipt holder unauthorized
Section 411.371 - Warehouse receipts, approval by director required - counterfeiting, penalty for - unused receipts returned to director, when - unlawful issuance of receipts, penalty
Section 411.381 - Receipts, contents - prima facie evidence of holder's claim to grain
Section 411.383 - Warehouse receipt register, how maintained
Section 411.391 - Warehouseman may sell or pledge receipts issued for grain owned by him
Section 411.401 - Grain accepted for storage in other public warehouse - form of trust receipts
Section 411.405 - Grain shipped to terminal warehouse at request of owner - how - grain shipped to other licensed warehouses for storage to cover nonreceipted storage obligations, how
Section 411.410 - Receipts to be numbered - duplicates
Section 411.420 - Lost receipts - procedure
Section 411.451 - Fraudulent receipts prohibited - division or consolidation of receipts - delivery of grain
Section 411.491 - Warehouseman must deliver grain, when
Section 411.511 - Warehouseman should deliver grain, to whom
Section 411.515 - Inventory required to be maintained - documents required to establish inventory
Section 411.517 - Records required to be kept
Section 411.518 - Scale tickets - required, contents, constitute nonnegotiable receipts, evidence of holder's claim to grain - custom weighing defined
Section 411.519 - Insufficient inventory, procedure to correct - insolvency, director may modify, suspend or revoke license or request order to be named trustee, procedure, order - warehouseman may appeal, how
Section 411.520 - Misfeasance or malfeasance - accepting money - improper influence - penalty
Section 411.523 - Warehouseman liable for conversion, when
Section 411.531 - Failure to take up and cancel receipt - warehouseman liable - when
Section 411.541 - Failure to mark receipt upon delivery of part of grain - warehouseman liable - when
Section 411.551 - Alteration of receipt - effect of
Section 411.561 - Receipt marked "duplicate" - meaning of
Section 411.571 - Transferor of receipt to endorse
Section 411.581 - Warranties on negotiation or transfer of receipt
Section 411.591 - Endorser not a guarantor for other parties
Section 411.601 - Certain devices prohibited where official state weights are given
Section 411.611 - Issuance of receipt without receiving grain - penalty
Section 411.621 - False statement - penalty
Section 411.631 - Issuance of receipt without indicating warehouseman's ownership - penalty
Section 411.641 - Improper delivery - penalty
Section 411.651 - Fraudulent deposit of grain and negotiation of receipt - penalty
Section 411.661 - Penalty for violation of law - operating without a license, effect of payment of penalty fee
Section 411.671 - Discontinuing business as public warehouse - procedure - license invalid on cessation or on change in ownership - notice - audit and examination
Section 411.681 - Law not applicable to weighing or weighing supervision, in federally licensed warehouse, by exchange or board of trade
Section 411.691 - Fee for public warehouse license, how computed
Section 411.701 - Director may contract with federal agencies
Section 411.750 - Safe working conditions to be maintained
Section 411.755 - Failure to pay fees, effect of
Section 411.760 - Remedies provided are in addition to and not exclusive
Section 411.770 - Stealing grain, penalty
Section 411.775 - Attorney general and prosecutors may prosecute upon complaint
Section 411.778 - Sign to be posted on warehouse or scale designating licensed or not licensed as warehouse - requirements - violation, penalties
Section 411.800 - Definitions - statutory lien on grain and grain-related assets for benefit of depositors